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    Beautiful work Doug - did the Euphroe blocks you use come supplied with the kit or did you scratch them? I tried to add snaking on my Blandford but quickly gave up - did you use sewing thread or was there light gauge thread that came with the kit? Anyway, thanks for sharing - this is really great work hamilton
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    Hi Augie: Great work - the sheaves look particularly good. hamilton
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    Well - at this stage there's no turning back - besides it's a good friend who, after falling into the crocodile pit, is kind enough to put some signs up around it - in any case, I'm sure it's not for fear of competition! hamilton
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    Hi Richard: Wow! You're working at a feverish pace - or at least it looks like it from here in the land where no modelling is getting done! The first planking looks great - what elegant lines on this vessel! I agree with Alistair's suggestion - when I was dealing with the ports on Blandford, I constructed one of the cannons and made a little square of the deck planking to set it on. I could then move this little mock-up around on the deck and get a good impression of the size of the gunports, and their location. Using the kit-supplied gunport pattern as a guide to locating the ports is a great idea (and avoids the issues with the pattern that others have noted on Pegasus/Fly). But you may find that the ports sit either a little too high or too low - double checking always to be advised! Anyway, I'm really impressed with your speed and accuracy - I've been told I build fast, but my results are nowhere near as nice as yours! hamilton
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    Hi Bob: Glad to hear you're leaving the inboard bulwarks natural - they look great and it would be a shame to cover up your beautiful work! Too bad also to hear about the continued issues with the kit.....but it seems you've been able to channel your frustrations into a really fine build hamilton
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    Thanks for the tutorial Jason - the tops are looking great! hamilton
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    Looking good Mobbsie - I'm trying to picture my Blandford standing on her stern at your mid-ships....just to get a sense of the scale..... hamilton
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    Wow Richard - I was just getting into your Endeavour build, and now I find this!! You are prolific! It's interesting to note a nice model like this with no logs attached. Certainly there are some very famous subjects out there (Victory, the other Endeavour, Bounty) that get a lot of hits - but there are others like this one, the Corel Bellona (though Harlequin started one a while back...), and as demonburger noted the Mary Rose that get missed....hard to say why....I'll watch this one attentively. And please don't neglect the Endeavour! A very exciting build hamilton
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    Hello all: Thanks for the kind notes! Wolf - the rigging lines are only free of fluff now - later there will be a veritable winter wonderland of fluff polluting the lines. I don't build cases for my boats, because I'm an idiot. This opens them all to the wear and tear of any other household item. I read somewhere that using a small fan-shaped paint brush and running this along the lines can help - and this is what I normally do once a week on the models I keep around the house. I think that a can of compressed air might work too - especially on decks - as long as everything is good and secure!! However others on the forum might disagree - this might be a good question (if it hasn't been asked already) for general discussion. In other news I've received a "commission" for a model boat from a friend of my wife's - it will be the Mamoli Yacht America - I'm just waiting for ME to ship it - I've been waiting for over 2 months!! This may pre-empt the Dos Amigos/Fair Rosamund build that has been commissioned by our close friends' 7-year old.....busy busy! The current build will go to our newborn - though he won't be in a position to even see it properly for quite some time. Bye for now hamilton
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    Thanks for the compliments all. Unfortunately I do not have an update on the Blandford, for two very good reasons. First, we welcomed our second child, a boy, last Sunday morning and the newborn is just far more pre-occupying to me than the boat has been. Second, it is end of semester and work has come to occupy the time that is otherwise occupied with family. I hope it is appropriate to mention this here, though it is not directly related to ship modelling. I hope to get back to Blandford next week, once things settle down a bit. In the meantime, I'm planning my approach to the spars and remaining details...I'm not quite at the stage where I'm thinking ahead to the next build - but soon, I hope. It's strange - I've built larger models in the past, but building a ship-rigged vessel at scale is incredibly mind-bending in a way that I really did not anticipate....I'm sure you all know what I mean. I hope you're all enjoying your time at the bench. And now....back to work!! hamilton
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    Nice job edge-bending the hand rails. I cut mine out of wider stock, not having thought of the approach you took - looks very nice. hamilton
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    Hi Andy: Don't get too distracted, now! This should be a very interesting build - As others have said, I've never seen a resin kit before - I'm curious in particular about your finishing techniques - though if you've been involved in model railroads, I imagine you have quite a number of good techniques in your arsenal! hamilton
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    Collingwood - looks like you're motoring along...I've never seen or heard of any techniques for lightening the blanks (though I imagine if it's been done then someone on this forum has done it...maybe post a question in the the forum area dedicated to questions about planking. The first thought that comes to my mind is - replace the planking! That might not be an option. Anyway - best of luck hamilton
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    Sheesh - if my blood and sweat planking looked anything like your crazy quilt planking I'd be a happy man! she's looking very fine Bob! hamilton
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    The collar looks great! I tried serving mine on the Blandford, but it was far too small a scale to get it to look right, even with sewing thread. hamilton
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    Looking great - I like the angled bees hamilton
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    She looks beautiful! Will you be leading us through the crafting of the pins? I can't imagine making 80 of these! hamilton
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    Hi Jason: This is an interesting point. I've seen kit plans (including those for the Greyhound, which are notoriously unreliable) that show many deadeyes on a single collar. However, reading Lees, It seems that each collar has only 1 deadeye. This is much easier to conceive.... hamilton
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    Looks like you're doing an expert job on the sails - can't wait to see them bent and rigged up hamilton
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    Great looking work here hamilton
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    Hi Mark: Jast catching up on your build - thanks for posting the profile shot - she looks a beauty! hamilton
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    Looks great - I love the colours hamilton
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    Hi Collngwood - as with my Greyhound, it seems like bulkheads 9 & 10 on yours are a little high off the bearding line. You'll need to shim those up - though I don't think as much as I had to by the look of things. When you run your battens along the hull to check the run of planks, you may find that the deficiencies in bulkheads 9 and 10 run quite far up the edges - mine did. Though maybe you won't have as serious a problem to deal with.... hamilton
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    Hello all: First of all, for Ferit I have the photo of the port side fore lower shrouds and ratlines (first photo below) - hope this is what you're looking for. The night before last I shaped, finished and outfitted the spritsail yard, and this evening I installed and began rigging it. I had hoped to add the clews and sheets as well, but I only managed to add the sling, the halliard, the lifts and braces. I also added jibboom guys and guy falls (as noted in Lees), but ended up removing them because I felt they made the model look too cluttered. I'm now cursing the absence of a fairleader block on the bowsprit - which Goodwin features, but which I didn't feel confident in making - now I'm not satisfied with the chaos of lines at the bow, and yet don't feel up for dismantling all my work.......I will live with it, I suppose. Anyway, I'll hopefully have a chance of finishing the spritsail yard rigging tomorrow - from there I'll start the spars from the mizzen mast forward.....Enjoy! hamilton
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    Hi Collingwood - that's how the Blandford is represented in Goodwin's book - and also how I finished my variation on the Greyhound kit...I used a mixture of Golden Oak and Natural stain (minwax) to obtain the finish on the outboard bulwarks. hamilton

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